Christodoulos Achilleus Floudas (August 31, 1959 – August 14, 2016) was a Greek–American chemical engineer.

Floudas completed a diploma in chemical engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1982,^[1] and received his Ph.D. in 1986 at Carnegie Mellon University under the guidance of Ignacio Grossmann.^[2][3][4] Floudas began teaching at Princeton University upon earning his doctorate, and was later named the Stephen C. Macaleer ’63 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science.^[5][6] From February 2015, he was the director of the Energy Institute at Texas A&M University, as well as the Erle Nye ’59 Chair Professor for Engineering Excellence within the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering.^[3]

His research areas were global optimization and process systems engineering.^[5] In 2011, Floudas was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering "[f]or contributions to theory, methods, and applications of global optimization in process systems engineering, computational chemistry, and molecular biology."^[7] In 2013, he was elected a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.^[8] From 2014 to 2015, Floudas was listed as one of the highly cited researchers.^[9] His h-index is 100 according to Google Scholar.^[10]

Personal life[edit]

Floudas was born in Ioannina, Greece on 31 August 1959.^[11][12] He died on 14 August 2016 while on vacation in Chalkidiki, Greece at the age of 56.^[5][13]

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